Internet Importance & Magazine Websites - Off The Wall

When we look back at the '90s a few things come to mind: grunge rock, Britney Spears, extreme sports, Bill Clinton waving his finger at the camera stating, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," and much more. But quite possibly the biggest thing to come from the '90s is what modern-day Americans now depend on for everyday survival: the Internet.

Although the Internet wasn't invented (I guess that's the right word?) in the '90s, it was in the '90s that it became widespread. At the end of the '80s "dot-com" would have been thought of as a communications company, or something of a sort. But by the time it was time to party like it's 1999, dot-com was the life of the party and everyone was going by their AOL screen names. There wasn't a single person in America who didn't know what a dot-com was-they were everywhere. In fact, that '99 Super Bowl every commercial that came on was for some kind of new dot-com business-well, besides the token beer commercials. But even at the end of those commercials they were sure to plug their own websites! Needless to say, the Internet and the dot-com phenomena was in full swing.

Today, society couldn't even begin to survive without the ever-so-powerful-and-mighty Internet. It seems the Internet is more crucial than water to most! I mean, can you even begin to imagine what life would be like without being able to log on to the Internet? It would be like the '80s all over again! It would be like Y2K 100-fold! It would be like that episode of South Park, for those of you who know what I'm talking about.

These days most businesses, schools, non-profit groups, etc., have a website, and so too does Custom Classic Trucks. Although it has been around for years now, and has continually grown, now is the time to take things to the next level. For those who've frequented our website you know much of the material is straight from the pages of CCT. There is new material that is exclusive to the website, but mostly it's all transferred from that archaic medium known as print. However, things aren't the same anymore.

Because we're limited in space in our print medium, we can't pack the magazine with everything we would like to. For that reason, we must sift through what we have and justify why we should include material in our new issues. Yet the Internet, like taxes, is never ending. The concept of "space" is non-existent. We can put up anything and everything we want to. Things such as new features, working with cool products, news, and events ... the list goes on. The good news is that we're now really starting to take advantage of that.

Once again, for those of you who do frequent the website, you may have noticed the onslaught of new web-exclusive material lately. One of the things I've started doing is posting an installment of short tech stories, dubbed "1-Hour Tech." Nothing fancy, nothing special, nothing hard-just cool products and easy-to-do tech at home. Now don't get me wrong, it's not that these products and stories aren't worthy of magazine exposure, it's just hard to do two-page tech stories when there is so much else out there that requires several pages. Log on to our website, www.customclassictrucks.com, and you'll be able to see some of the stories I'm talking about, along with other new material. That's all for now.